Job training in aviation maintenance expands

A new facility at the Delaware Technical Community College will expand an aviation maintenance degree program.

The $1.4 million Theodore C. Freeman Powerplant Education Building opened this year to increase workforce training by offering the program, according to a statement from the college. The upgrade means graduates will be able to earn FAA certification in two areas of aviation maintenance, airframe and powerplant.

The new workforce training facility is named for a Delawarean who dreamed of being an astronaut when he was growing up, and he was named as astronaut by NASA. Freeman died in a jet crash in 1964, according to a a biography on NASA's website.